z67\doc\web\2003\04\waslgrade.txt

This has a date of April 18, 2003 on it.  The newest carrot the FWSD is
offering 10th grade students to complete the WASL.  Isn't this bribery? 
Here is the web link
http://www.fwsd.wednet.edu/info/press/0203/030418waslgrades.html

Pass the WASL, Improve Your Grades
In a never-ending effort to motivate our students to better prepare 
for the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) tests, 
Federal Way high school principals put their heads together and came up
with the following incentives for the Class of 2005.

Sophomores, who take the WASL between April 21 and May 8, and pass 
either the Language Arts (reading, writing, and listening) portion, 
and/or the Math portion, will have the following options:

1. Students can get a .5 credit and a passing grade in a Language 
Arts class or a Math class they failed in 9th or 10th grade. 
Or
2. Students can raise their grade one letter increment in a Language Arts
or Math class they have already taken. (For example: from C+ to B-, or
from B+ to A-) 

They must pass the Language Arts portion of the WASL to use one of 
these incentives for a Language Arts class and they must pass the 
Math portion of the WASL to use one of these incentives for a Math 
class.

Currently these incentives are only available to sophomores and when
results from the current WASL testing arrive this fall, these incentives
will be reevaluated.

April 18, 2003 

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Lisa Lewis



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